OVERVIEW
AUDIO IMPERIA
EPIC SOUNDS FOR EPIC COMPOSERS
AUDIO IMPERIA is a joint venture of producers &
composers with years of experience in the trailer music
and game music industries.
We focus on creating boutique sound design instruments.
Deriving from the German word Jäger, meaning Hunter,
JAEGER is the first release in a series of orchestral
instruments that will usher you into a new era of modern
cinematic music. As composers, we constantly find
ourselves chasing that next creative spark, but our short
deadlines don’t always allow us the time to let inspiration
hit. You have to simply apply fingers to keys and pour the
music into your sequencer.


I N S TA L L A T I O N & R E Q U I R E M E N T S

INSTALLATION SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

JAEGER uses the Continuata Connect download system IMPORTANT NOTE:

that offers a fast and reliable product delivery.
JAEGER requires the full retail version of Kontakt 5.5.2 or
higher. It will not work past the “demo” period in the free
Please download the latest version for your operating
Kontakt Player.
system before downloading the instrument. Once the
installation is complete, simply enter the download code For both PC & MAC systems, we highly recommend at least
that you received via email into the Connect download 4GB of RAM and a quad-core CPU for optimal playback of the
tool, choose the location for the library, and begin the samples.
download.
Disk Requirements:
JAEGER: 22.8 GB Installed
NOTE: While Continuata Connect allows you to “Pause”
an installation and then continue the download at a later
time, please do not close the application before pressing
the “Pause” button first.
Concept

JAEGER was created by a team of industry veterans who set out

on this endeavor with two, seemingly, simple goals:

• An incredible sound, straight out of the box

• An incredibly user-friendly engine and interface

The orchestral parts of JAEGER contain individual sections for

strings, brass, and percussion. Though the library is primarily
focused on punchy, epic music, it is not just designed to be loud; it
is cinematic.

In true Audio Imperia fashion, we added more to the library than

you’d normally expect. The orchestral sections are complemented
by processed percussion mixes, an extensive sound design
section, and most importantly, an incredibly unique vocal section
featuring internationally renowned vocalist Merethe Soltvedt.

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All patches can be further tweaked by using the powerful

custom-made Kontakt engine that includes multiple
independent step modulators, global and independent
controls, and much more.

We spent months on developing this engine, to provide the

user with something truly unique and new. All with sound
design and trailer music in mind, the engine allows you to
tweak the sounds in realtime with a dual FX page layout (Big
Knob + Insert FX) and the incredible step modulators.

The way the library was designed was to provide realism

and consistency across all instruments in the library. We
kept the original recording levels intact during all stages
of production, so everything you hear is as close as you
can get to the sound of the original recorded sessions.
The selection of articulations and the performance of
those articulations is also very consistent across all
instruments.
Patches

The library is split into five sections, which we've stylized

as hangars:

• Hangar 1 is Strings
• Hangar 2 is Brass
• Hangar 3 is Percussion
• Hangar 4 is Vocals
• Hangar 5 is Sound Design

The instruments are recorded in their respective sections,

so for the strings we have 16 violins, 10 violas, 6 celli,
and 4 double basses each of which you can write for
individually. For the brass we have 3 trumpets, 6 horns, 4
trombones, and 2 tubas. For the percussion we recorded
2 gran cassas, 2 large snares, 2 small snares, 2 large
toms, 2 small toms, sticks, 3 different solo taikos (large,
medium, small), piatti, and tam tam.

We also had the privilege to record on of the most

renowned soprano singers in the cinematic music
industry, Merethe Soltvedt.
 M a i n P a g e C o n t ro l s

• Main: Main Page View

• FX: Effects Page View

Jaeger includes our signature big knob effects system which you'll be familiar with if you've used any of our other libraries.
On the main page you will find four collapsible panels, which you can hide and show to your hearts content.

Options Panel: On the options panel you can configure how the library interprets incoming midi data. You can transpose midi
data by octave or semitone. You also have a range option, to artificially increase the playable range of the library. And you
have a velocity curve to allow you to tailor the library to your particular keyboard or just to your preference.

Articulations Panel: On the articulations panel you have a list of all the articulations in the patch. Individual articulations can
be loaded and purged by clicking the little circle in the top right. You can switch between articulations by clicking on them,
by clicking on the key switches or by playing a keyswitch on your midi keyboard. The keyswitches can be moved using the
(lockable) keyswitch rage slider which you can find in the two left of the articulations panel.

Control Panel: Dynamics and Expression are the standard controllers that you'll find in many other orchestral libraries. The
dynamic slider allows you to crossfade between the recorded dynamic levels on the legato, sustain, and Tremolo articulations
and the expression slider is basically just a volume control. The sample start slider tells the library to play more or less of the
attack sound of any note played. This can very useful for making the library feel more responsive when being played live with
the midi keyboard (for example when you need to get really tight and fast played spiccatos). The legato sample start slider
allows you to hear more or less of the legato sample, with the slider to the left we'll hear more of each legato sample and
with the slider to the right you'll hear less. With hearing less it will feel much more responsive if being played live on a midi
keyboard. The legato sample start slider also lets us make faster runs sound more realistic. The dynamic range slider allows
you to control the dynamic range for each articulations and can be very useful if you're finding that the quietest dynamic level
just isn't quite quiet enough for you.

Mixer Panel: By default each patch is loaded with the mix mic position, but you also have the option to load the spot, decca
tree, wide, or far mics. The panel also allows you to mute, solo, and pan any of the mic positions.
 F X P a g e C o n t ro l s

The controls on the FX page follow the way the signal path is set up in the engine:

1. “Jaeger” comes with a very unique step modulator script, which allows you to draw
complex curves for controlling up to 10 independent modifiers: 4 Volume modifiers, 4
Pan modifiers, 1 Low Pass Filter modifier and 1 High Pass Filter modifier. Volume and
Pan are designed in a way, so that you can activate more than one step modulator at a
time without any conflicting. In addition, you can control the number of steps, the
frequency and the intensity.

The step modulator (which now latches) is controlled using keyswitches (from C6 to A6)
and the color of the tab corresponds to the keyswitch that controls it.

Save: Saves the selected step modulator values to an .nka file.

Open: Loads step modulator values from an .nka file to the selected step modulator
Reset: Clears the selected step modulator.

2. “Jaeger” offers a script concept called Big Knob, which was inspired by our Klavier
libraries (See next page).

3. The Insert FX section allows you to add selected Insert FX (Compressor, Distortion,
Lo-Fi, Rotator, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser) and control the individual FX parameters.

4. The Send FX section allows you to add selected Send FX (Delay and Reverb) and
control the individual FX parameters.


B i g K n o b C o n t ro l l e r

Big Knob

In a nutshell, the Big Knob serves as an additional Insert FX page, to give you
the power to make even more complex effects.

But the real power of Big Knob is that you can control any parameter of a total
of 7 (combinable) effects: Compressor, Distortion, Lo-Fi, Rotator, Chorus,
Flanger, Phaser.

• Effect selection dropdown menu: Allows you to select an effect.

• Effect On/Off: Clicking on the effect in the dropdown menu, allows you to
activate/bypass the selected effect.

Assign Panel

The Assign Panel allows to dive into the individual parameters for every effect
that you want the Big Knob to control.

• Assign selection: Select a parameter to be controlled with the Big Knob. The
selection changes according to the selected effect.
• Assign On/Off: Clicking on the parameter in the dropdown menu, assigns
the selected parameter to the Big Knob.
• From: Determines the controller start point percentage.
• To: Determines the controller end point percentage.
 

THANKS
A huge
1965 r o u n d o f t h a n k s g oERAT
es to:

J a n & To m á s , t h e p r o d u c e r t e a m .
Simon, for helping with the editing work, beta testing, and walkthrough videos.
Bryan, Paul, and Joshua, for all of the extra sound design.
Nick & Natali, for the killer interface work.
Tr i s t a n , f o r t h e s h e e t m u s i c f o r t h e s e s s i o n s .
Jean-Gabriel, for the amazing music for the teaser video.
Antoine, for his wonderful cover artwork.

T h e a l p h a / b e t a t e a m : D a n i e l J a m e s , To m G i r e , A d a m H o c h s t a t t e r, M a t t h e w F i s h e r, D y l a n J o n e s , M a r t i n H a s s e l d a m ,
P o n t u s R u f e l t , S e a n B e e s o n , S t e v e n D a v i s , P h i l L o b e r, J a m e s E v e r i n g h a m , J e r e m i a h P e n h a , Va l e n t i n B o o m e s , C e d r i c
Baravaglio, and Jean-Gabriel Raynaud.
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